Culture, sport and film
'Remember the Christmas 1914 truces: a brief moment of sanity amidst industrialised slaughter' No Glory in War 16/12/2014.
As classic anti-war dance anthem All Together Now is re-released, this article looks at the cultural and commerical phenomenon of marking the December 1914 Christmas Truces. Based on interviews with political activists, academics, musicians and church leaders, it asks why commemorating the 1914 Christmas truces is so important - and how it should be done.
Back local sport, not the Olympics'
A letter in The Journal about the absurd approach to funding sport taken in Newcastle and the UK in general in 2012.
War on Terror - The Boardgame
A review of TerrorBull Games' controversial 2006 satire of the foreign policy of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, a cross between Risk and Monopoly
This was originally printed in the New Internationalist magazine in August 2007.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Kazakh Nation
A review of Sacha Baron Cohen's controversial 2006 spoof about a Kazakh journalist crossing America to marry Pamela Anderson.
This was originally commissioned for the West by Northwest website in December 2006.
Die Another Day
A review of the latests Bond video release, directed by Lee Tamahori, which pits agent 007 against a renegade North Korea threatening the US with weapons of mass distruction.
This was originally printed in the New Internationalist magazine in August 2003.
Black Hawk Down
A review of Ridley Scott's dramatization of Mark Bowden's harrowing blow-by-blow account of a battle in Mogadishu that precipitated the end of the ill-fated US military intervention in Somalia in 1992-3.
This was originally printed in the New Internationalist magazine in March 2002.
Steve Earle Jerusalem
A review of Steve's Earle brilliant but controversial September 2002 album Jerusalem.
Originally published in the Campeace Journal